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“I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Speech, July 17, 1850. P. 437.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7fb7eaf1596a95e57515ba5b4c574d4fd03bbd8ac6feff3598e1fac10223b070
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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